Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From both sides of the Iron Curtain, volunteers enlist in the fight against a common enemy: permafrost, the iron-hard layer of dirt and rock bonded together by year-round ice. Permafrost underlies 20% of the earth's land area. It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations. Blacktop highways often absorb...
...conferees faced up to the fact that as the north grows in population and economic importance, some permafrost problems will become more severe. Sanitary Engineer Amos Alter, 47, chief engineer of the Alaska Department of Health, detailed some of the elaborate methods now being tried for heating and pumping sewage in his burgeoning cities. And in a far-out speculation of his own, he suggested that in the future arctic liquids and wastes could be purified and recycled in "some sort of closed-circuit arrangement" that would treat whole cities in the manner now planned for two-man space capsules...
...remaining money should be used. Minority Whip Tom Kuchel proposed that no funds should go to nations that try to assert exclusive fishing rights beyond the three-mile off-shore limit recognized by the U.S. "What has happened off the coast of South America is positively shocking," said Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, referring to harassment of U.S. fishermen by Ecuador, Chile and Peru. "It is time for the United States to crack down hard." The amendment carried...
Today every state of the Union except Alaska has some sort of never-on-Sunday law on the books. They range from prohibitions directed at a single activity-boxing in California, barbering in Oregon-to broad bans on industry and commerce. Several states, including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, have toughened their Sunday statutes within the past few years, and only last week the Supreme Court refused to hear an Ohio merchant's case challenging that state's blue laws...
ERNEST GRUENING U.S. Senator (Alaska) Washington...